{"id":3304,"date":"2012-03-14T17:53:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T04:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.newzealand.wordcamp.org\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2012-04-03T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T01:57:11","slug":"hello-world-what-your-site-should-say-amanda-blum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/hello-world-what-your-site-should-say-amanda-blum\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello World! &#8211; What your site should Say &#8211; Amanda Blum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3022\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordcamp.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Amanda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3022\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3022\" title=\"Amanda\" src=\"http:\/\/wordcamp.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Amanda-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Blum- Howling Zoe\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Blum- Howling Zoe - U.S<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re all a bit obsessed with what our sites should look like, because that&#8217;s the easy sauce.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Figuring out what the site should say, how it should say it and where it should say it is two steps short of brain surgery.&#8221; says Amanda<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pop a few &#8220;easy pills&#8221; as I lead you on a sure-fire-how-to of how to get it done without the soul crushing doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Clear concise exercises and a few laughs when you look out the right side of the plane.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda is \u00a0a past organizer of WordCamp Boston and WordCamp Phoenix and CMSExpo (WordPress track), a speaker at WordCamps Boston, Phoenix, NYC, Savannah, Portland, Las Vegas and Chicago, and have spoken at WordPress meetups in Boston, Providence, Cape Cod, Portland, Phoenix and San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p><em>I talk a lot<\/em>, sometimes when people have specifically asked me to:)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a longtime champion of WordPress for use in microbusiness and non profits and talk mostly about information architecture, UX, the administration of WordPress and how to keep clients from f&#8217;ing up the sites you make them.<\/p>\n<p>When not Pressing, I make pickles and knit scarves. My parents still have no idea what I do for a living. For more clues <a title=\"Howling Zoe - Amanda Blum\" href=\"http:\/\/howlingzoe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">see her Howling Zoe<\/a>\u00a0website &#8211; tip:hover over the bottom left corner.<\/p>\n<p>P.S \u00a0If you are Amanda&#8217;s parents &#8211; we are delighted she is coming down here \ud83d\ude42 (She has photos)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all a bit obsessed with what our sites should look like, because that&#8217;s the easy sauce. &#8220;Figuring out what the site should say, how it should say it and where it should say it is two steps short of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/hello-world-what-your-site-should-say-amanda-blum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hello World! &#8211; What your site should Say &#8211; Amanda Blum<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262775,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6893,29],"tags":[26222,5042,418478,26289,14,5043],"class_list":["post-3304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6893","category-speakers","tag-auckland","tag-content","tag-speakers","tag-wordcampnz","tag-wordpress","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gALf-Ri","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3307,"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions\/3307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzealand.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}